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Over the past three decades, Anupam Mishra has created a silent but permanent revolution. He has changed the dominant paradigm of water and shown that water security and insecurity is a product of nature plus culture, not just a given of nature. There can be water scarcity in high rainfall region and adequate water in low rainfall regions like the Rajasthan desert.

Anupam’s work on the indigenous water systems of Rajasthan is a work of poetry as well as a work of science. It is this work that has inspired the water conservation movement of Tarun Bharat Sangh, which received the Magasaysay award in 2001.

Anupam has had a commitment to using Hindi both for his writing and speaking. The English speaking world has therefore been deprived of his inspiring contributions. We are grateful to Maya Jani, Director of Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology for translating Anupam’s book Rajasthan Ki Rajat Boonden (published by Gandhi Peace Foundation) into English, under the title The Radiant Raindrops of Rajasthan so that readers in India and abroad can share his vision and insights.

We are also honoured that Anupam Mishra gave us permission to bring out this translation of his landmark book on water systems of Rajasthan.

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